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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.

Bobby Seale

The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
BOBBY SEALE

Humanity People Pollution Revaolution Solution
I’d have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I’d just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.
BOBBY SEALE

Musician Myself Revolution Trouble
The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done.
BOBBY SEALE

Oppression Ourselves People Realize Terms
I am not a hoodlum. I’m a community organizer.
BOBBY SEALE

Community Myself Organization
But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party – whose members for the most part come from the ghetto – seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people’s language.
BOBBY SEALE

Language Party People Talk Thinking Understand
I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.
BOBBY SEALE

Dreams Greatness Humanity Progressive Thinking
Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.
BOBBY SEALE

Black Call Conservative People Platform
There’s nothing wrong with being a cop. There’s nothing wrong with being a white person. It’s about where your heart is…We’ve got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.
BOBBY SEALE

Beyond Heart Person Police Wrong
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
BOBBY SEALE

Capitalist Development Economics Need Yourself
My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.
BOBBY SEALE

Design Dimension Father Master Myself
We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
BOBBY SEALE

Move Observation Police Scare Stand
Money is the medium of exchange, and it’s how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
BOBBY SEALE

Hate Ideal Medium Money Yourself
We don’t hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
BOBBY SEALE

Color Hate Oppression
We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.
BOBBY SEALE

Fact Jump Protest Start Thinking University
We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist Live politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.
BOBBY SEALE

Average Government Live Money Person Politics Rich Talk White
The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn’t want to give a long dissertation.
BOBBY SEALE

Black Determination People Point Power Program

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